Apparatus for producing ornamental su rfaces



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RAFAEL JULIAN CHAVEZ AND CHARLES COLTON HERMAN, OF PANA, ILLINOIS.

APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL SURFACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 573,206, dated December 15, 1896- Application filed November 21, 1895. Serial No. 569,660. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, RAFAEL JULIAN CHAVEZ and CHARLES CoLToN HERMAN, of Pana, in the county of Christian and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Producing Ornamental Surfaces, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved apparatus for permanently producing any desired ornament in a selected color upon a piece of glass, wood, paper, metal, or othermateriahthe apparatus being very simple and inexpensive.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improvement on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a face view of one of the articles produced. 7

The improved apparatus is provided with furnaces A, A, A and A preferably arranged one alongside the other, and each pro vided in its bottom with a burner B, preferably in the shape of a gasolene-burner, connected with a common pipe B, containing a valve B and supplied with gasolene from a suitable overhead tank. (Not shown.)

In each furnace A, above the burner 13, is arranged a wire-netting C, adapted to receive the powders or dry materials (such as sulfur, indigo, tobacco, resin, straw, wood, coal, 850.) passed into the furnaces through an opening D in the front of the furnace, as indicated in Fig. 2. Oils, turpentine, and like liquids are passed into each furnace through a pipe E, connected with a tank F, supported on the top of the furnace in the rear thereof, as indicated in Fig. 2. Each pipe E is provided with a valve E for regulating the flow of the liquid into the furnace.

From the top of each furnace A A A A extends upwardly a pipe G, leading into a fine or mixer H, connected at one end by a l narrow flue I with a chamber J, provided with horizontal racks or other suitable devices tohorizontally support the articles K to be treated. Each article K is provided on the surface to be ornamented with a stencil, so that 011 the uncovered parts of the surface settles the colored gas passing into the chamber J from the pipe I and flue H. Pieces of paper L can be passed through slots J in the chamber J to the interior thereof to permit the operator to examine at any time the workings of the colored gases in the said chamber J.

The pipe I is provided with a damper I, and a similar damper G is arranged in each pipe G to regulate the flow of the gases. In the closed end of the flue H is arrangeda faucet N for drawing off any condensed gases from the said flue. The latter is also provided with a chimney 0, containing a damper O, to permit the surplus gas to escape whenever desired. A manhole and safety-valve may also be arranged in the flue H to give access to the latter and preventexplosions.

Now it will be seen that when the apparatus is in operation a colored heated gasis produced in each furnace by the burning of the pigments in connection with the oils and turpentine supplied from the tank F, the heated color'ed gases passing from the said furnaces into the flue II, in which they are thoroughly mixed with each other, to finally pass through the open pipe I into the chamber J to settle on the articles K placed therein. Now it will be seen that the surface not covered by the stencil or pattern receives a deposit of the said colored gases, so that the surface of the article is ornamented according to the form of the pattern placed upon the articles. Usually it requires but a very short time, say from fifteen to. fifty minutes, for properly coloring the exposed surfaces of the articles,

and after this has been accomplished the ar ticles are removed from the chamber J and varnished or otherwise treated.

It will be seen that by this arrangement a very uniform deposit of the coloring-matter is made upon the surface to be ornamented,

and no brush-marks whatever are visible, so

that a very fine effect in ornamentation is obtained.

The expense of the materials is considerably less than that for ordinary paints, as

the materials employed are very inexpensive.

for supporting the material to be ornamented, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In an apparatus for producing ornamental surfaces, the combination with a receptaole for holding the material to be ornamented, of a furnace connected with the receptacle and having a burner in its bottom, a perforated pigment-support above the burner, and a hydrocarbon-tank provided With a pipe dis charging into the said furnace above the said perforated support.

RAFAEL JULIAN CHAVEZ. CHAS. GOLTON HERMAN.

Vitnesses:

E. W. MARsLAND, ROBERT A. WALFQRD. 

